The mayor framed the lawsuit in the context of the global financial crisis, noting that the city was trying to slice $500 million from this year's budget, and was likely to propose raising property taxes by 7percenttoto generate an additional $600 million starting in January.
Indeed, almost instantaneously, the Obama campaign was trying to slice a fine line on the vice president's remarks, declaring them no further along the evolutionary spectrum than where the president currently stands: "What VP said -- that all married couples should have exactly the same legal rights -- is precisely POTUS's position," tweeted David Axelrod, Obama's top political adviser.
But this does not mean you should go around schools with your katana while you are trying to slice everyone's heads off! Remember, be unpredictable!
Barbara Rusch, a collector of Queen Victoria memorabilia in Toronto, has been trying to acquire a slice of the 1840 cake for two decades.
You may have been trying to find five slices that had the same shape - but the question did not ask for that.
A number of big companies, most notably Amazon and eBay, have been trying to get a bigger slice of the online apparel pie.
Battle royale games remain white-hot, and VR game studios have been trying to find the right way to get a slice of the pie.
While I was trying to properly slice the onions, he told me how he was awakened one morning by someone banging on his bedroom door.
And don't think that Microsoft is trying to simply slice itself the tiniest sliver of the pie like your typical type-A friend that eats vicariously through everyone else, no sir. Microsoft wants to be the Doug Heffernan of online advertising.
"What has changed is that instead of the Republicans in Congress offering a single, excessive tax-cut package that could be rejected immediately as breaking the bank," Mr. Sperling said, "they are now trying to slice their tax agenda into smaller pieces, which can be individually considered on the basis of fairness, fiscal prudence and priorities".
The idea was easier to conceive than to execute: process cheese was packaged and sealed while still fluid and hot, and cutting hot cheese was like trying to slice molten lava.
